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Nimrod (II)

Real
Name: NimrodOccupation: HunterIdentity: Secret to the general populace of present
day EarthLegal Status: NoneOther Aliases: UnrevealedPlace of Creation: Project Nimrod, at an undisclosed
location in the continental United States of the early
Twenty-First Century in an alternate reality.Marital Status: InapplicableKnown Relatives: InapplicableGroup Affiliation: NoneBase of Operations: Currently New York CityFirst Appearance: X-Men #191

History: In the early Twenty-First Century of
an alternate reality, Sentinel robots have effectively
taken control of the United States in order to carry out
their mission of eliminating the alleged menace posed
to ordinary humanity by superhuman mutants. The Sentinels
succeeded in either killing all known superhumans, whether
mutants or not, or imprisoning them within concentration
camps.

In this alternate reality the last known survivors of
the team of superhuman mutants known as the X-Men
were the adult Katherine Pryde, known as Ariel (her counterpart
in this reality is called Shadowcat),
and the adolescent Rachel
Summers, Pryde and Summers illegally entered a top
secret "cyberobotics" complex in order to deal
with "Project Nimrod," the effort to construct
the ultimate, most highly advanced Sentinel
robot possible using the technology of that time. Pryde
and Summers were discovered and pursued by guards, but
they locked themselves within Project Nimrod's laboratory.
However, the laboratory was shielded against the use of
Pryde's power to phase through solid matter, and hence
Summers believed that both she and Pryde were trapped.
However, Pryde had given Summers a post-hypnotic command
to use her psionic powers to project herself into the
past when Pryde said the word "Dark Phoenix,"
Pryde said the words and Summers was hurried back to a
time when the Sentinels did not rule America, and when
Pryde thought Summers would be safe. But Summers did not
jurney to the past of her own reality, but to the past
of our reality, where she became a member of the present-day
X-Men and eventually took the name Phoenix. The end result
of Project Nimrod, the highly advanced Sentinel called
Nimrod, killed Pryde after Summers' departure through
time.

Sometime after Summers' arrived in the present, Jaime
Rodriguez, a worker at a fish market in lower Manhattan
discovered an ancient necklace within the body of a fish.
Within its amulet was confined the spirit of the wizard
Kulan Gath, who had lived before the beginning of recorded
history. Rodriguez resisted Kulan Gath's attempts to take
possession of his body, but then Rodriguez was stabbed
by an unidentified mugger. The mugger took the necklace,
and Kulan Gath was easily able to overwhelm the thief's
malevolent psyche and take possession of his body, Kulan
Gath then cast a spell that transformed Manhattan into
a city resembling one of his own time, and that caused
all of its people to think and act like people of that
era. But Kulan Gath was eventually defeated throught the
efforts of the X-Men, Spider-Man,
and other super humans. The sorcerer supreme of Earth's
dimension, Doctor Strange,
whom Kulan Gath had held captive, united his magical prowess
with the magical and mutant abilities of Illyana Rasputin,
also known as Magik, to
create through magical means a divergent event that would
enable another reality to be created in which Kulan Gath
had never cast his now seemingly irreversible spell over
Manhattan and its denizens. Strange succeeded in triggering
the creation of this other reality, to which he and a
handful of others who had experienced Kulan Gath's reign
of terror were transported. (Apparently Strange's spell
had somehow prevented this new reality from having its
own counterparts to himself and the handful of people
who traveled to it from the Manhattan Kulan Gath had ruled.)
Strange, however, was unaware of the nature of the divergent
event he had magically caused to happen.

The divergent event was that the highly advanced Sentinel
known as Nimrod was transported to the moment just before
Rodriguez was stabbed. Nimrod was designed to hunt mutants,
and in order to hunt Rachel Summers down, Nimrod had attempted
to duplicate the means by which she had traveled back
in time. Nimrod found himself caught within an unusual
energy flux which was the result of Strange's spell, and
transported to the aforementioned moment within our reality.
Programmed to protect human beings that he did not consider
to be criminals, Nimrod blasted the mugger, thereby saving
Rodriguez's life. The impact of the blast caused Rodriguez
to drop the necklace, which was swallowed up in the muck
and ooze along the subway tracks above which Rodriguez
had been standing. Thus Kulan Gath did not get the opportunity
to usurp the mugger's body and cast his spell over Manhattan.

Rodriguez was very grateful to his strange rescuer for
saving his life, and brought him home to live with his
family. Nimrod adopted a roughly humanoid form in order
to blend in with the people around him, and eventually
succeeded in making himself look entirely human whenever
he so desired. Nimrod learned that he had arrived in the
past of a different reality than his own. His primary
directive in his programming was to defend humanity and
he believed that in his own time and reality, this goal
involved the extermination of superhuman mutants. However,
Nimrod decided to study the situation in this reality
more closely before determining whether humanity's safety
required the extermination of all superhuman mutants in
this reality as well.

Nimrod decided that superhuman mutants who were branded
by the legal authorities as outlaws, including the X-Men,
should indeed be killed. Learning that the criminal Juggernaut
was sighted in Manhattan, Nimrod decided to eliminate
him. The X-Men also learned that the Juggernaut was in
Manhattan and tracked him down Nimrod attacked both the
Juggernaut and the X-Men but Rogue,
one of the latter, managed to defeat Nimrod, who teleported
himself away.

Nimrod has since made a reputation for himself in New
York City as a heroic vigilante who deals out a harsh
form of justice to human criminals in the city. The general
public believes that Nimrod is a human being and that
his undisguised robotic form is actually only battle armor
that he wears.

Recently, Nimrod battled the combination of the X-Men
and the superhuman leaders (Lords Cardinal) of the Inner
Circle of the Hellfire Club. Working together, the
X-Men and Lords Cardinal succeeded in defeating Nimrod.
But Nimrod learns from his defeats, and reconstructs himself
afterwards to make himself still more formidable. Presumably
Nimrod is at present continuing his career as a vigilante
crime fighter in New York City.

Later, a component of the original Sentinel known as
Master Mold was activated
by contact with Nimrod. Using Nimrod's body and materials
from a construction site as his own body, the Master Mold
sought out the X-Men for revenge. The X-Men defeated the
robot by pushing its body through the mystical portal
known as the Siege Perilous, with presumably help from
Nimrod, who influenced Master Mold into thinking itself
as a mutant and therefore needing to be destroyed.

Nimrod and the Master Mold as entities were destroyed,
reborn together as the mysterious Bastion. Bastion reinstated
a Sentinel program on behalf of the United States government,
and created a brand new Master Mold to lead his legion
of Prime Sentinels. When Bastion's plans were thwarted
by the X-Men and the espionage S.H.I.E.L.D.
agency, Bastion downloaded the new Master Mold's programming
into himself. Ultimately, however, this programming was
destroyed when Bastion was captured by the Acolytes of
mutant villian Magneto
and turned into the being known as Template.

Strength Level: The exact extent of Nimrod's strength
is unknown, but it may be in the Class 100 range.

Known Superhuman Powers: Nimrod is the most highly
advanced form of Sentinel robot possible for the technology
of his native time period and reality to create. It is
not known from what materials Nimrod was constructed,
but his robotic form is highly resistant to damage even
by superhuman beings. Nimrod can convert his outward appearance
to resemble that of an ordinary human being. Nimrod can
also reconstruct himself so as to make improvements in
his robotic form and internal systems that will make him
a more formidable opponent.

Even when smashed to pieces, Nimrod can reintegrate the
portions of his body to become whole again. Apparently
Nimrod's electronic consciousness can somehow exist independently
of his physical body, at least temporarily. It has been
speculated that Nimrod has complete control of his component
parts down to the molecular level. If so, then Nimrod
might have to be reduced to powder in order to be destroyed,
and he might even be able to reconstitute his form from
that state.

It has also been speculated that Nimrod has the potential
to evolve somehow into a "techno-organic" form
of life, similar to the Magus or Warlock, although presumably
not having the Magus's extraordinary level of power.

Nimrod contains highly advanced computer systems as well
as scanning devices that make it possible for him to determine
whether a human being is a superhuman or not, and if he
or she is, to determined the nature of his or her superhuman
abilities. Like present-day Sentinels, Nimrod can draw
upon devices and systems within his robotic body in order
to cope with or neutralize an opponent's superhuman power
once he has determined the nature of that power. If there
is no pre-existing means within Nimrod of fighting against
his opponents superhuman power, it is possible that, if
he has sufficient knowledge, Nimrod can devise such a
means within himself before his next battle with this
opponent.

As yet not all of Nimrod's built-in weaponry has been
observed. It is known, however, that Nimrod can project
extraordinarily powerful concussive blasts of energy,
as well as bolts of plasma and disintegrator beams. Nimrod
can also project magnetic energy that enables him to levitate
enormous quantities of iron and steel. Nimrod can create
force fields about himself.

Nimrod can teleport himself but the limitations on this
ability are unknown.